1. God, why have you rejected us for so long?Why are you angry with us, the sheep of your pasture?
2. Remember the people you bought long ago.You saved us, and we are your very own.After all, you live on Mount Zion.
3. Make your way through these old ruins;the enemy wrecked everything in the Temple.
4. Those who were against you shouted in your meeting placeand raised their flags there.
5. They came with axes raisedas if to cut down a forest of trees.
6. They smashed the carved panelswith their axes and hatchets.
7. They burned your Temple to the ground;they have made the place where you live unclean.
8. They thought, “We will completely crush them!”They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.